Casino Yeo Dun Mind Losing Votes in Serangoon Gdn Woh!

[makapaaa]

Cos the Familee is gonna merge it into AMK or East Coast or Tg Pagar?

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Keeping the economy humming is more important than fretting over whether votes will be lost.
Foreign Minister George Yeo gave this response yesterday when asked if the unpopular decision to house foreign workers in Serangoon Gardens would affect political support for his Aljunied GRC team.
Speaking to The Sunday Times on the sidelines of a Hari Raya grassroots dinner, Mr Yeo said: 'The important thing is to do what is right. You cannot always be worried about votes.'
He explained that the economy needs foreign workers and Singaporeans should understand these constraints.
'When the economy goes down and people's lives are affected... surely that must be politically more costly to the Government,' he said.
Plans to convert the former Serangoon Gardens Technical School at Burghley Drive into a dormitory for foreign workers made headlines last month, with residents meeting their MPs and signing a petition.
The Government has since decided to go ahead with the dormitory but said it would accommodate some of the residents' concerns, including the construction of a new access road from the Central Expressway to Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1.
However, other residents living near the new access road became unhappy.
In response, the Ministry of National Development announced last week that it would work with the dormitory operator to arrange for buses to pick up and drop off workers within the dormitory's premises.
Trees and shrubs near the access road will also be planted to shield the dormitory from surrounding houses.
Acknowledging that there are a handful of residents who are still upset, Mr Yeo pointed out that the ministry had already gone out of its way to accommodate residents.
He said: 'There's got to be a certain tolerance so long as their concerns are addressed...We all have our preferences about what should be in our neighbourhood and we can't have all our wishes.
'A decision has been taken, requests have been made, whatever could be accommodated is accommodated. I think on the whole, it's a good compromise.' [email protected]

 

[Kid278]

Foreign Minister George Yeo gave this response yesterday when asked if the unpopular decision to house foreign workers in Serangoon Gardens would affect political support for his Aljunied GRC team.
He explained that the economy needs foreign workers and Singaporeans should understand these constraints.
'When the economy goes down and people's lives are affected... surely that must be politically more costly to the Government,' he said.
He said: 'There's got to be a certain tolerance so long as their concerns are addressed...We all have our preferences about what should be in our neighbourhood and we can't have all our wishes.
'A decision has been taken, requests have been made, whatever could be accommodated is accommodated. I think on the whole, it's a good compromise.'

Read between the lines and one will see the arrogance. These people know where they stand as oppose to those serangoon garden residents. Their weak objection doesnt mean a thing and is not going to make any difference as far as votes are concerned. They are talking about tolerance and compromise and doing the right thing. But the punch line is be tolerant and compromise, dont challenge their decision, it's always right.:p

 

[zhihau]

Read between the lines and one will see the arrogance. These people know where they stand as oppose to those serangoon garden residents. Their weak objection doesnt mean a thing and is not going to make any difference as far as votes are concerned. They are talking about tolerance and compromise and doing the right thing. But the punch line is be tolerant and compromise, dont challenge their decision, it's always right.:p

i thought it was more like telling the peasants this... oh behave...

 

[theblackhole]

no way out.just follow the law. u singaporeans are ugly,proud, snobbish, arrogant...xenophobic,howlian,discriminatory, racist...u singaporeans, serangoon residents are intolerant...now you live kwai kwai with the foreigners...this is a lesson in tolerance.so keep quiet and behave!

 

[Ah Guan]

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No contest = walkover

 

[sage]

Sympathy to the SG residents. Since when issue was a choice on forsaking economic growth or expulsion of all foreign workers. It is simply a matter of housing them. Centralising them in huge number right smack in a peaceful neigbourhood is really ignoring the warranted concerns of the residents, even if prison like security measures are implemented. If economics are at risk, why box these workers up and honour them with a new exclusive road. Why the dialogue with residents in the first place with promise to raise it to relevant authority and now talk like that one.

 

[rodent2005]

Cos the Familee is gonna merge it into AMK or East Coast or Tg Pagar?

He explained that the economy needs foreign workers and Singaporeans should understand these constraints.

The big bosses need foreign workers to keep wages low to increase their profits, most other sinkees don't need foreign workers. Big bosses and ministers benefit directly from having foreign workers. Therefore foreign workers should be housed in the ministers' houses or neighbourhood.

When it comes to pay, it's their talent, so they should get more. When it comes to burden, it's OUR burden and they don't have to share in it.

 

[popdod]

They are sending a message....u argue somemore...i make ur estate property value drops even further....

Dun challenge the elephant when u are just a small mouse.
Elitists are always right.

:o :o

 

[chongb]

Yes, I think I have written earlier that the decsion to build the housing camp will go on depsite all the meetings. The media will put a show and report the matter in good light for the government. As a matter of fact, Serangoon Garden residents were be made to look bad in the eyes of the average Singaporean. Why not ? the issue is the diminished value of their property!!!! which most residents dont want to say and the press try to hide this issue. Common sense will dictate this. Why not build the camp in the bukit timah reserve ! near greenwood or othe wood residents . Soon the Minister is going to pronouce this fact and nail ths issue and say, let move on.

Serangoon residents learned their lesson. They should not have been too meek. The approach to resolve the matter is wrong in singapore context. The government dont give two hooks to their request. The housing camp should have been build at Jurong, and Mah will have accede to this request if the serangoon garden residents are more vocal. But then most residents there are the older generation I suspect the workers are meant for the industries located in the Selatar or serangoon or paya lebar areas.

Let move on, serangoon garden residents. You have missed the chance. Try to assimilate these foreign talent and workers or the right word, to integate with them, show them your love and your love for the country, or the PAP government. Let learn to be a world citizen.

If the situation turns out to be bad, the road is jammed towards the cirlce, the chomps chomps which is very popular with the residents near serangoon garden is too crowded. The hiterto peaceful and safe roads are no longer safe but filled with non descript persons, the place is litter with papers and over the weekend and, if thousand people do assembled and loiter around the circle, if life becomes unbearale, then move out or vote wisely in the next election. This is life . Let move on.

 

[friskygambit]

I have a feeling that Aljunied GRC will not exist in the next elections.

 

[Man in the streets]

Ever wonder why George Yeo needs to blog as FM?

Being a FM, his job seems to be shadowed by so many ministers travelling overseas to seal contracts.

Again, if he is a really talented man, why a FM post?

Did you guys hear him give speeches at GE Rally? He is not a good speaker and he speaks with a bad diction, like a mouth filled with food when talking.

Next GE, Hwee Hua and George will be out and work at PM's office without portfolio like the Lim ah kiang.

 

[Kid278]

He is not a good speaker and he speaks with a bad diction, like a mouth filled with food when talking.

Put more crudely, choking on spunks in the process of a blowjob.

 

[TITW]

Wonder he regrets saying those words now?

 

[glockman]

..............
Next GE, Hwee Hua and George will be out and work at PM's office without portfolio like the Lim ah kiang.

The writer is a prophet woh!

 

[Force 136]

This 2008 thread is a warning to the PAP......

"ignore the masses and the masses will ignore you"

PAP must reflect the will of the people or it will become irrelevant in no time......

 

[methink]

Yea yea... heard!

 

[tanwahp]

The writer is a prophet woh!

Not really accurate. They got worse - totally voted out and don't even have a job with "garment".

 

[Time2Evacuate]

All thanks to a stupid, idiotic, senseless and arrogant decision by MBT's MND to place a foreign workers' dorm in the middle of a residential estate with many children, women and elderly folks and within about a 2-minute walking distance of an all-girls primary school, PAP is now kicked out of Aljunied and Serangoon Gardens. I think we have MBT to thank for all of this.

I salute the residents of Serangoon Garden for helping to kick PAP out in GE 2011.

Word out on the streets is that PAP suffered one of the worst polling numbers in Serangoon Gardens -- barely over the low 20% -- which leads one to think that the low votes for the PAP in Serangoon Gardens may be the deciding factor in seeing PAP being voted out in Aljunied GRC.

The moral of the story is that Singaporeans may put up with PAP's arrogant nonsense of calling Singaporeans DAFT, spurs not stuck in hide, etc and may tolerate PAP's condescending style of lecturing and talking down to the people -- but if you conduct yourself in a very shocking way to the people that threatens them and the safety of their families, expect to be voted out -- because there is a limit to what the PAP is allowed to do to the people.

It will be a long, long time before PAP can show its shameful face again in Serangoon Gardens or Aljunied. Once damage is done, and unfairness inflicted, people will always remember and will not forget.

So, my sense is that Aljunied GRC and Serangoon Gardens may be very difficult to be regained by PAP again. If PAP does not reflect and change its way of dealing with the people, it can expect to lose more GRCs in GE 2016.

Let's work together and vote PAP out of office in the rest of Singapore.

 

[myfoot123]

I wonder will George Yeo said the same thing if the dormitory is built near Oxley Road.